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Health Care in London

The picture that the hon. Gentleman is painting comes from tittle-tattle and innuendo. I represent a seat that is covered by the north-west London sector, and the picture that he paints bears no resemblance to the truth on the ground. All that people have seen for the past five years has been an improvement in the quality of their health services, whether at a polyclinic level, a tertiary level or in the three hospitals that make up the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. He ought to pay some tribute to the work that is going on in the health service in those areas instead of simply spreading despondency on the basis of rumour.